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A
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Richard Adams
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Leila Ahmed
Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Louisa May Alcott
Sholem Aleichem
Lloyd Alexander
Sherman Alexie
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Isabel Allende
Dorothy Allison
Julia Alvarez
Kingsley Amis
Rudolfo Anaya
Sherwood Anderson
M.T. Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson
M.T. Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson
Maya Angelou
Brashares, Ann
Anonymous
Katherine Applegate
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Jay Asher
Brodi Ashton
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Saint Augustine
Marcus Aurelius
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Avi
Avi
Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila
B
Natalie Babbitt
Paolo Bacigalupi
Adam Bagdasarian
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
John Barnes
Joan Bauer
L. Frank Baum
Ishmael Beah
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Gregory Benford
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
Ambrose Bierce
Franny Billingsley
Holly Black
Edward Bloor
Judy Blume
Judy Blume
Judy Blundell
Giovanni Boccaccio
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Libba Bray
Libba Bray
Libba Bray
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Sarah Rees Brennan
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Pearl S. Buck
John Bunyan
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Octavia Estelle Butler
Octavia E. Butler
A.S. Byatt
Béroul
C
Unknown but perhaps contributed to or altered by Turoldus, the scribe of the Oxford Manuscript (c. 1140-70 C.E.)
Michael Cadnum
Italo Calvino
Joseph Campbell
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
Asher, Jay and Mackler, Carolyn
Lewis Carroll
Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver
Kristin Cashore
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Eleanor Catton
Aidan Chambers
Raymond Chandler
James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Gennifer Choldenko
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin
Andersen, Hans Christian
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Lucy Christopher
Caryl Churchill
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros
Arthur C. Clarke
Judith Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Beverly Cleary
Andrew Clements
Paulo Coelho
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee
Eoin Colfer
James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins
Ally Condie
Richard Connell
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Susan Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier
Bryce Courtenay
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane
Sharon Creech
Michael Cunningham
Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis
D
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Edwidge Danticat
Don DeLillo
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo
James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
Philip K. Dick
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Peter Dickinson
Annie Dillard
Isak Dinesen
Heather Dixon
Cory Doctorow
E.L. Doctorow
Jennifer Donnelly
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frederick Douglass
Frances O'Roark Dowell
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wendelin Van Draanen
Sharon M. Draper
Theodore Dreiser
Jeanne DuPrau
Kathleen Duey
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
D
Tomie dePaola
E
Walter D. Edmonds
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers
George Eliot
George Eliot
George Eliot
George Eliot
George Eliot
Deborah Ellis
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
Buchi Emecheta
Louise Erdrich
Laura Esquivel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Euripides
Euripides
F
Anne Fadiman
Nancy Farmer
Nancy Farmer
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John D. Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Becca Fitzpatrick
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
Paul Fleischman
Esther Forbes
Jamie Ford
E. M. Forster
E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster
Anne Frank
Pat Frank
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Frazier
Don Freeman
Sigmund Freud
Garret Freymann-Weyr
Athol Fugard
Cornelia Funke
G
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest J. Gaines
Mohandas K. Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi
Jack Gantos
Cristina García
John Gardner
Elizabeth Gaskell
Carole Geithner
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Jean Craighead George
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Susan Glaspell
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
William Golding
Günter Grass
Joanne Greenberg (originally published under the pseudonym Hannah Green)
John Green
John Green
John Green
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
John Howard Griffin
Paul Griffin
Nikki Grimes
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Ursula K. Le Guin
David Guterson
H
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Shannon Hale
Shannon Hale
Alex Haley
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
Daniel Handler
Lorraine Hansberry
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Sonya Hartnett
Pete Hautman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Kevin Henkes
O. Henry
O. Henry
O. Henry
M. H. Herlong
John Hersey
Hermann Hesse
Karen Hesse
Hermann Hesse
Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen
Susan Hill
S.E. Hinton
Christine Hinwood
Jennifer L. Holm
Felice Holman
Homer
Homer
Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins
Nick Hornby
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
David Hume
Irene Hunt
James Hurst
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Aldous Huxley
I
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco
Washington Irving
John Irving
Kazuo Ishiguro
J
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson
Harriet Jacobs
W.W. Jacobs
Henry James
Henry James
Henry James
Henry James
Henry James
Henry James
Henry James
A. M. Jenkins
Sarah Orne Jewett
Ji Li Jiang
Francisco Jiménez
Catherine Jinks
Angela Johnson
Diana Wynne Jones
Ben Jonson
James Joyce
James Joyce
James Joyce
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Alvarez, Julia
Norton Juster
K
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Ezra Jack Keats
Margery Kempe
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Daniel Keyes
Sue Monk Kidd
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid
Amy Sarig King
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
John Knowles
Joy Kogawa
E. L. Konigsburg
E.L. Konigsburg
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner
Thomas Kyd
L
Madeleine L'Engle
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Thanhha Lai
Nick Lake
Anne Lamott
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Erik Larson
Ingrid Law
D.H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
Ursula K. LeGuin
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Harper Lee
Harper Lee
Stanislaw Lem
Primo Levi
Gail Carson Levine
David Levithan
John Green and David Levithan
Harry Sinclair Lewis
C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis
Astrid Ericsson Lindgren
Clarice Lispector
E. Lockhart
E. Lockhart
Jack London
Jack London
Jack London
Bette Bao Lord
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Marie Lu
Chris Lynch
M
Patricia MacLachlan
Niccolò Machiavelli
Carolyn Mackler
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
Sir Thomas Malory
David Mamet
Thomas Mann
Melina Marchetta
Kamala Markandaya
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John Marsden
Victor Martinez
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Bobbie Ann Mason
Wendy Mass
Mark Mathabane
Guy de Maupassant
Daphne du Maurier
Joyce Maynard
Lish McBride
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
Geraldine McCaughrean
Patricia McCormick
Frank McCourt
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers
Laura McNeal
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Ben Mikaelsen
Henry Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Dan Millman
A. A. Milne
John Milton
John Milton
Molière
Molière
Molière
L.M. Montgomery
Alan Moore
Thomas More
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Brandon Mull
Alice Munro
Iris Murdoch
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
N
An Na
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Donna Jo Napoli
Jandy Nelson
Jandy Nelson
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness
Jennifer Niven
Garth Nix
Han Nolan
Mary Norton
O
Robert C. O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Scott O'Dell
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Joyce Carol Oates
Tess Oliver
Tillie Olsen
Kenneth Oppel
George Orwell
George Orwell
Ovid
Eugene O’Neill
P
Thomas Paine
R.J. Palacio
Dorothy Parker
Boris Pasternak
Ann Patchett
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson
Alan Paton
James Patterson
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Richard Peck
Richard Peck
Robert Newton Peck
Richard Peck
Richard Peck
Julie Anne Peters
Rodman Philbrick
Tamora Pierce
Marge Piercy
Christine de Pizan
Sylvia Plath
Plato
Carol Plum-Ucci
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Katherine Anne Porter
Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok
Terry Pratchett
Sister Helen Prejean
Margi Preus
Francine Prose
Annie Proulx
Philip Pullman
Thomas Pynchon
R
Ann Radcliffe
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Adam Rapp
Ellen Raskin
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Wilson Rawls
Erich Maria Remarque
Louise Rennison
Adam Rex
Jean Rhys
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson
Ann Rinaldi
Faith Ringgold
Gregory David Roberts
Marilynne Robinson
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff
Edmond Rostand
Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell
Arundhati Roy
Juan Rulfo
Salman Rushdie
Joanna Russ
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Cynthia Rylant
Ole Edvard Rölvaag
S
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
J. D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Marjane Satrapi
Laura Amy Schlitz
Sir Walter Scott
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick
Brian Selznick
Maurice Sendak
Anna Sewell
Michael Shaara
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Steve Sheinkin
Mary Shelley
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
William L. Shirer
Leslie Marmon Silko
Shel Silverstein
Upton Sinclair
Sinleqqiunninni
Rebecca Skloot
David Small
Adam Smith
Betty Smith
Zadie Smith
Lemony Snicket
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles
Jessica Sorensen
Wole Soyinka
Anonymous, edited by Beatrice Sparks
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth George Speare
Edmund Spenser
Art Spiegelman
Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Laurence Sterne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Trenton Lee Stewart
Mary Stewart
Maggie Stiefvater
Bram Stoker
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
Francisco X. Stork
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Todd Strasser
Theodore Hamilton Sturgeon
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
T
Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Mildred D. Taylor
Theodore Taylor
Laini Taylor
James Patterson & Chris Tebbetts
Janne Teller
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
William Makepeace Thackeray
Tim Tharp
Joyce Carol Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
James Thurber
Amy Timberlake
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Middleton, previously attributed to Cyril Tourneur
Dalton Trumbo
Ivan Turgenev
Sheila Turnage
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
U
Unknown Author
Unknown
John Updike
John Updike
V
Clare Vanderpool
Vince Vawter
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Vernor Vinge
Judith Viorst
Helena Maria Viramontes
Virgil
Cynthia Voigt
Cynthia Voigt
Voltaire
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
W
Derek Walcott
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Robert Penn Warren
Evelyn Waugh
John Webster
John Webster
Elizabeth Wein
H. G. Wells
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
Eudora Welty
Nancy Werlin
Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld
John Corey Whaley
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
Gloria Whelan
Ruth White
E. B. White
T.H. White
Elie Wiesel
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder
Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Margery Williams
August Wilson
August Wilson
Ellen Wittlinger
Tobias Wolff
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
Y
Rick Yancey
Rick Yancey
Gene Luen Yang
Eugene Yelchin
Laurence Yep
Jane Yolen
Z
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Sara Zarr
Paul Zindel
Émile Zola
Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak